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I've just spent the last few days putting a few more miles on my '63 Austin with a trip down south.



On Saturday I took part in the run from Cowley to The Pride of Longbridge event. The run, which was organised by Tanya Field, was excellent. With some 40 odd cars, of varing types, assembled at the MINI works in Cowley the day got off to a great start.



The route took the cars on the old trunk roads to Longbridge, and after a couple of hours and one detour (I missed a left turn whilst following an SD1), I got to Crofton Park. After being directed to the alloted parking area for the run participants it was time to take in all the cars that were present.
The majority of vehicles on display were Rovers and MGs of the '90's and '00's, but it was great to see pristne, and not so pristine, examples of the product of BMC and BL from the '50's, '60's and '70's.

There was a great selection of Minis

And here's some of the other cars that were to be seen.

Great ornament seen on an Austin Metropolitan



'67 Austin Westminster



Pimped 1800



Were have they all gone?



Ready for racing



Rare!



I don't remember seeing one of these with wires before



The event caters to all tastes!!!!!!



The rest of my pictures from the day can be found at

http://s710.photobucket.com/albums/ww10 ... ge%202012/

Thanks for looking.

Great pics, as always Stu.
A nice collection of BMC and Leyland produced cars.

Lovely photos. The opening dash pic is stunning.

What's your camera gear?

All these pics were taken using my Fuji Finepix S200 EXR. It's one of those bridge type cameras that looks like an SLR but isn't. I have it set in manual mode and adjust the ISO and shutter speed to get the exposures right.

The dash shot was done by resting the camera on the passenger seat. It took a cople of shots and a bit of cropping to get the final image. It would be better if it showed the key fob, perhaps next time.

Lovely photos, thanks for sharing.

Al

Yep, great photos. Looks like a great day.

i cannot think of any situation, in any time period, where a morris marina convertable would have been a desirable new car!!!

that riley looks lush on those wires,

guru_1071 wrote:i cannot think of any situation, in any time period, where a morris marina convertable would have been a desirable new car!!!

that riley looks lush on those wires,

Rich, look at that fancy rear quarter window solution!! Oh, and it's obviously a twin cam.. oh wait.....

Vegard wrote:Rich, look at that fancy rear quarter window solution!! Oh, and it's obviously a twin cam.. oh wait.....

funnily enough ive just been laughing at the rear windows as the lad i work with likes marinas, he claims that the 'tc' is twin carb, im sure it means 'totally crap'

Steady on Boys...i`ve got a TC Convertible in the Garage, don`t knock what you haven`t driven they are nicer to drive than you might think, ok so they don`t corner like a Mini but then again, what does! , quick bit of geek info for the uneducated...they made about 35 Mumford Convertibles from a design by Crayfords (who incidentally designed the Mini Convertible), we reckon there are about 16 Marina rag tops left so you could say they are a bit rare .

I love a convertible...but theyr'e still a Marina

Tim

something not everyone might know

the 1300 marina coupe had an S type distributor, the very early ones had the same type of points as the mini, the points with the nut securing the condenser wire.

The later coupes had the same type of distributor no vac advance but took the later type points.

The TC's with the 1800 engine were reasonably fast, but very unstable as mentioned.

The clubman an estate looks like a really good example

If fitted with an S type distributor they are definitely worth scrapping then.....

Marina convertibles.
Made here in sunny Plymouth.

We've got several marinas down here,all full of water..................and yachts

Great pic's... 'thanks Surf'